[laughter] ♪ >> mike bloomberg spent 12 years running the country's biggest city -- new york.t is no wonder he thinks local government is the bedrock of society. >> cities are where you distribute services. federal governments and state governments tend to move money around. cities are where you pick up the garbage, where you educate the kids, where you bring down crime, where you enact health measures that you can actually see. what you can buy, how it is labeled, where you can use it, those kinds of things. if you take a look at most of the progress that has been made in climate change, for example, it has all been done at the city level. very little -- even in this country, when we are fighting guns, obesity, improving the school systems among those are not done at the federal and state level. those are done at the city level. >> bill, i have always wanted to know this from you. you have such a huge arsenal of resources. how do you pick the causes that you get behind? >> globally, i think the greatest inequity is how poor children don't get to go up and achieve their potent

. >> and joining gates, a friend and fellow flantsdzpist, mike bloomberg. >> there are fewer people starving, fewer people sleeping without a roof over their head. things are better. >> in the bill and melinda gates foundation, bill predicts that by 2035 there will be almost no poor nations left in the world. what these titans are doing to see that through. >> i read thri your letter. and what i noticed is that you are very optimistic. you say, look, we are better off than we were decades ago. where does this come from? >> well, i think i'm naturally optimistic but i think the facts are almost eye to the optimist and i think it's dangerous that people are focusing on the bad news and not seeing the progress we've made. it means we don't look at the best practices, it makes them less generous. we are raising poor countries up. most people live in middle class countries now. there is more to be done on health and agriculture but the track record of success, if you don't see that you're not going to participate in what we need to do. >> and you say that thereby no poor nations by the time we re

mayor and he was a super guy and he loved new york city and he knew how to govern it i think mike bloomberg is a terrific has been a terrific mayor and. one. little reward. you know you don't live there and it's not i'm glad i live floor you know you got your calls for the last year. i'm glad i live in florida and on that note we thank my guests the honorable judge judy sheindlin as we know or judge judy currently in syndication for ever for both what would you say is available exclusively to alice on and you can visit her web site of the same name for so sell the price and you can find me on twitter at games things and judge judy had judge judy and all she and i just thought. i'm. i'm big corporation trying to. do and thank all that. much and i'm a family fit for a politician right. here just like. that. what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is a break in this set last month a report on the u.s. military's plans to build yet another base on the japanese island of okinawa keep in mind there are already thirty two existing u.s. military bases which occupy twenty percent of the land althoug

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even mike bloomberg when he first was elected. how does he recover from this?really a big problem? >> let me first say i think bill de blasio should be concerned about a dissatisfied maggie haberman. number one. but look, i think in some ways, de blasio had nowhere to go but down. this is someone who was elected by massive margins. not just in the general election, which it's new york city, although it has elected us a -- ostensibly republican mayors. but in the primary, he overwhelmed everyone and the race was sort of over with. i think when you win like that, you inevitably will disappoint some people. expectations will be so high that even if you are doing everything right, and i'm with maggie, i don't think he's doing everything right, but even if he was doing everything right, i think you would see some people saying, well, this isn't the guy i voted for. i think it's the nature of winning the way in which bill de blasio won. with the amount of attention, both in the new york city market, but also nationally that he drew, that he's going to be someone that

leaders, the parents of trayvon martin and jordan davis, magic johnson, former new york marry mike bloombergthers he unveiled a new private-public initial called my brother's keeper. to bring business, nonprofits and local government together to try to help young black and hispanic men stay in school and get good jobs. in laying it out, the president recounted the story he recently told a gathering of at-risk school kids in chicago. >> and when it was my turn, i explained to them that when i was their age i was a lot like them. i didn't have dad in the house. and i was angry about it, even though i didn't necessarily even realize it at the time. i made bad choices. i got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do. i didn't always take school as seriously as i should have. i made excuses. sometimes i sold myself short. and i remember when i was saying this, you may remember this avenue was finished the guy sitting next to me said, are you talking about you? [ laughter ] >> i said yeah. and the point was, i could see myself in these young men. and the only difference is that

obama made this one of his top priorities of his second term, and former new york city mayor mike bloomberg, the billionaire, has been funding campaigns across the country to get its candidates elected, and that is the reason i wrote this book is because i have seen firsthand that these gun-control laws are not want to do anything to reduce violence. host: emily miller is here to answer your questions, gun rights around the country. let's start with david calling in from iowa on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. hi, emily. guest: hi, david. caller: i have a question about the media coverage. one thing we have seen in the media is they are more than happy to take all of these mass shootings and paraded people in front of the public, the victims of these crimes of mass shootings, but they are also unwilling to show the life that have been saved from people who have been law-abiding citizens who have stopped these from happening. it bothers me when politicians stand on the tombstones of the fallen in order to press their gun-control cases. guest: i agree with you co

. >> and joining gates, a friend and fellow flantsdzpist, mike bloomberg. >> there are fewer people starvingle sleeping without a roof over their head. things are better. >> in the bill

obama made this one of his top priorities of his second term, and former new york city mayor mike bloomberge billionaire, has been funding campaigns across the country to get its candidates elected, and that is the reason i wrote this book is because i have seen firsthand that these gun-control laws are not want to do anything to reduce violence. host: italy miller is here to answer your questions -- emily miller is here to answer your questions, gun rights around the country. let's start with david calling in from iowa on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. hi, emily. about theuestion media coverage. one thing we have seen in the media is they are more than happy to take all of these mass shootings and paraded people in front of the public, the victims of these crimes of mass shootings, but they are also unwilling to show the life that have been saved from people who have been law-abiding citizens who have stopped these from happening. it bothers me when politicians stand on the tombstones of the fallen in order to press their gun-control cases. guest: i agree wit

. >> then mayor mike bloomberg had a little scuffle with chuck himself who bit the billionaire on the >> that is hilarious! >> the groundhog was put down three minutes later. >>> the toronto star. rob ford had another run-in with police over the weekend. ford was ticketed in a suburb outside of vancouver for jaywalking friday night. >> oh, my gosh! >> ford maintains he was sober. ford says police went out of their way to ticket him. the incidence is the latest in a bad series of mayor which wa lawsuit filed against him. >>> mike allen is here with the morning playbook. politico is saying some democrats ranked for re-election in midterms are starting to get nervous all of this attention about raising all of this money for hillary in 2016 is going to make democratic donors overlook something a little more important right now and that is actually keeping the senate in 2014 for democrats. why? >> joe, this is incredible. signs that hillary clinton is too successful as she gears up for a run. you know, mark halpern has talked for years about the invisible primary. the concern here is hilla

. >> mike line of "bloomberg view ," -- matt klein of "bloomberg view" has to say a specter is haunting u.s. the flow of information seems to be getting choked by a lack of high-speed data connectivity. that will not change unless new investment becomes more profitable or the government intervenes. david kirkpatrick, also of "bloomberg view," the eight most dangerous words in the english language, i am from the government and i'm here to help. >> i do not think that is crazy. i think the u.s. is falling behind in a times -- in terms of broadband delivery among developed countries. i think that number was like 19 in terms of broadband speeds, average citizens can access. it is the lifeblood of the modern economy, broadband. if you do not have it, you are in trouble. >> david, you are sticking with us. coming up in the next hour, bill george of harvard will be talking about facebook. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene. a lot going on. inflated -- inflation data at 8:30 this morning. dow futures-team. let's look at the data stream quickly. it is an improv

. >> bloomberg contributing editor david kirk patrick and mike arner cory johnson. of silicon valley's top vcs are leaving to start their own funds. two women are stepping out on their own. ♪ >> this is the best of bloomberg west, i am emily chang. in a field dominated by men, two female venture capitalists are stepping up to start their own firm. cory johnson and i sat down with both of them to talk about why they launched the new firm. >> i think both jennifer and i felt like this is our entrepreneurial thing. it is like when you see a vision and you share it. we thought this is a great time in the market to be focused on seed and early-stage investing around mobility as a theme. to work with somebody that you have known for over two decades. >> was this a difficult decision for you, jennifer? >> no, i have been in the business for 17 years and it is a great opportunity and time. frankly, if not now, then when? we have been focused on our careers as apprentices and now game int the top of our our respective firms and we thought this is an opportunity for us to do s

mike rogers is here with us to weigh in on it all. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." -- i'm emily chang. the conference kicking off your in san francisco -- the ongoing edward snowden nsa scandal is sure to be front and center. house intelligence chairman of mike rogers is here with me in the studio. thank you for joining us. withave been meeting industry ceos today. what's on the top of their mind? >> how do we rebuild the confidence that our intelligence services are not violating privacy and not encroaching on won six of our economy growing right here in silicon valley? all of those conversations are happening. >> what do you see are the chances congress will finally come to an agreement on some sort of cyber security legislation? are you willing to alter your proposal to get the deal? >> im as long as for of bills the mission. people think the nsa and the intelligence services are doing, they are not. we are trying to say here is exactly what the threat is. can we do a competent builder so we know that the nsa is not listening to their phone calls? we should do th

mike turner. he is also a top member of the house armed services committee. also with us is our bloombergontributor richard falkenrath. also, peter cook. i want to get to our bloomberg correspondent on the ground in kiev. start with what is going on right now on the ground. give us the latest on this manhunt for the former president. kiev is getting to normal. we see more cars. we see traffic jams, which tell us that the traffic is getting to a normal way of life. , it is a veryme tense situation. also 24 hours of military groups and trolling the cities. they are keeping law and order in the city, they say. hear unconfirmed reports that some occasional clashes during the night. they're working on forming the interim government. they're working on getting the aid package. >> yes, the aid package which is now in question. the details are being ironed out right now. thank you for joining us. our news correspondent on the ground there. commerce men, let me turn to you first. you are keeping your eye very closely on what is going on. do you support and aid package? >> this is incredibly import

bloomberg west." i am emily chang. mark zuckerberg takes the stage at the mobile world congress conference in barcelona. hear what he has to say about spending $19 billion to buy whatsapp. mike rogers chimes in on edward snowden and the nsa scandal. how the russians may have helped him more than we think. he will talk about the latest in the ukraine, coming up. samsung unveils its first verbal -- wearable devices, running software that is not google. two smart watches, and one fitness band. they also showed off the samsung galaxy s5. a look at what the new phone actually does. sam grobar got his hands on one. take a look. >> this is the new samsung galaxy s5. i want to show you five things that are new. the phone was announced today. for starters, it is a larger display. this is 5.1 inches. the old galaxy, only five inches. also, you have a fingerprint sensor on the bottom. sounds like the fingerprint sensors we have seen on other phones. on the back, there is a heart rate monitor. you put your finger here, and the phone will tell you whether you are about to have a cardiac episode or something. there is also better materials and a camera along the back of the phone. some cr

mike emanuel live on the hill, thank you. >>> the state department is pushing back tonight against a report that secretary of state john kerry says the obama syria policy is collapsing. bloombergts kerry told members of a bipartisan delegation that the president needs a new, more assertive policy. kerry also reportedly said al qaeda linked groups in syria pose a direct terror attack to the u.s. >> a former first lady on what's in store once there's a woman in the oval office. >>> and calling out the president at his own game. the grapevine is next. jim, i adore the pool at your hotel. anna, your hotels have wondrous waffle bars. ryan, your hotel's robes are fabulous. so i'm choosing all of you with hotels.com a loyalty program that requires no loyalty. because an empty pan is a blank canvas. [ woman #2 ] to share a moment. [ woman #3 ] to travel the world without leaving home. [ male announcer ] whatever the reason. whatever the dish. make it delicious with swanson. which 4g l map has the most coverage? this isn't real difficult. pretty obvious to me. i'm going to have to say verizon verizon. the choi is obvious. verizon is america's largest and most reliable 4g lte network, w

bloomberg west." i am emily chang. mark zuckerberg takes the stage at the mobile world congress conference in barcelona. hear what he has to say about spending $19 billion to buy whatsapp. mikeimes in on edward snowden and the sc